The collection contains boxes and several separate items. It is semi-cataloged. The entire collection deals with The Zamorano
Club of Los Angeles.

The boxes include information about members, various pieces of correspondence to and from members, financial and bank records,
meeting invitations and keepsakes, and items pertaining to special events, publications, and individuals.

The member files contain nomination materials and personal items relating to specific members as well as some information
regarding their deaths (obituaries and funeral programs).

The individual collections contain the personal correspondence and papers of C.K. Adams (a railway official and founding member
of The Friends of the UCLA Library) and Homer Crotty (a prominent lawyer and one of the six Zamorano Club members who compiled
The Zamorano 80).

The general correspondence, which spans 1928 to the 2000s, mainly contains letters written by various club members. Subjects
include club issues of the day, subjects discussed in Board of Governors meetings and members' meetings, issues pertaining
to annual joint meetings of the Zamorano Club and the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco, and other matters. Noteworthy subjects
include the formation of the club in the late 1920s, the change in location of meetings, and the decision to allow women into
the club in 1990.

Financial records range from the 1930s to the 1980s and include bank statements, cancelled checks, tax information, checkbooks,
bills, and account books.

Meeting minutes range from the 1920s to the 2000s and include both minutes from the members' meetings and the Board of Governors
meetings. Some minutes are contained in original binders kept by secretaries and various members, and others are arranged
into folders and organized by year.

The Bancroft Index items include the index itself and correspondence relating to the index. This index, created by several
club members, contains the names included in George Bancroft's History of the United States from the Discovery of the American
Continent published in 1884.

Miscellaneous items following these boxes contain smaller collections and specific subjects pertaining to the club. Notable
items include information about The Zamorano 80, an inventory of books in the club library, various founding and legal documents
(including the articles of incorporation and membership laws), recommendations for desired members, information regarding
the Blumberg book theft in 1990, and papers relating to Hoja Volante (the club newsletter).

Artifacts and ephemera include official club objects such as the Zamorano tie, paperweight, and embosser. Noteworthy items
include several Chinese woodblocks and information pertaining to them.

Joint meeting keepsake boxes include one or two copies of keepsakes from joint meetings. These range from 1953 to the present.
Marked copies of guides for these keepsakes may be found in the sections following the hard copy of this finding aid: Keepsakes:
'The First Half Century' 1928-1978 and Keepsakes: 'Thirty Years: Fin de Siecle' 1978-2008. A series of boxes of general keepsakes
and publications (not from joint meetings) is also included, and these are also marked in the two bibliographies. These bibliographies
should be marked accordingly if keepsakes and publications listed in them are added.

Oversize boxes include the correspondence and papers of William Webb Clary (a founding member of the club), papers and essays
written by members of the club, member rosters (including addresses and telephone numbers) for the years spanning 1929 to
the 1990s, and oversized keepsakes and publications.

A few items from the library apparently remained unsold after the 1999 sale. They may be recognized by the presence of the
Zamorano Club Library bookplate. Those that are Zamorano Club publications and keepsakes have been incorporated into the "General
Keepsakes and Publications" and the "Joint Meeting Keepsakes" series. The rest, along with some miscellaneous items that lack
the bookplate, have been placed in the "Zamorano Club Library" series.

Cataloger's Notes

1. Items have been arranged chronologically or alphabetically wherever possible. However, in an effort to retain the original
organization of certain club members' correspondence (i.e. C.K. Adams and Homer Crotty), some items were left in their original
order.

2. Most items were placed in individual categories (i.e. Correspondence, Financial, etc.) in an attempt to broadly distinguish
their subject matter.

Biographical/Historical Note

The
Zamorano Club is a Southern Californian organization for bibliophiles and manuscript collectors. It was founded in
1928, and sponsors lectures and publications on book-related topics. The Club was named in honor of
Agustín V. Zamorano (1798-1842), a provisional governor of Alta California and the state's first printer. It is club tradition to present keepsakes
to members at meetings, resulting in a variety of printed mementos ranging from pamphlets to small books; sometimes the items
are reproductions of historical documents.

The
Zamorano Club has had its meetings at various places since its founding, including the University Club, the Treasure Room within USC's
Doheny Library, and other locations. As of January 2009, the club meets at the Women's City Club of Pasadena. In May
1991, coincident with the move from USC, it was decided to put the club's archive, library, and publication overstock in storage
at Occidental College Library. Subsequently the Board of Governors decided to dispose of the library, and the books were accordingly
sold at Pacific Book Auction Galleries (sale 180, 15 February
1999). The proceeds from the sale were placed in the club's endowment fund.

In order to quote from, publish, or reproduce any of the manuscripts or visual materials, researchers must obtain formal permission
from the
Zamorano Club.

Literary Copyright

The
Zamorano Club retains the literary rights to the material.

Conditions Governing Access/Restrictions

The entire collection is open for qualified researchers, with the exception of materials noted below. Please contact Special
Collections, Occidental College Library regarding access procedures.

Access to the following materials are restricted to the archivist, current Governors of the club, and past Governors who were
in office at the time of creation: the past ten years of Board of Governors Meeting Minutes and Financial Records, the last
box in the Member Files Series.

Provenance/Source of Acquisition

The collection has been stored at the Occidental College Library since 1991. Material was donated by individual members of
the
Zamorano Club as well as by the club itself.

The following applies to "General Keepsakes and Publications" and "Joint Meeting Keepsakes". A maximum of two examples were
saved of each item found in the archive (exception: in one or two cases there were more than two variants – in such cases
one of each variant was saved). They were arranged chronologically, and marked in photocopies of the two bibliographies that
have been compiled for the periods 1928-1978 and 1978-2008. A few items were not captured by the compilers of the bibliographies
– these have been entered by hand at the appropriate place. It would be desirable for the Club to acquire and add missing
keepsakes, especially for the earlier years. If this happens, they should be filed in the appropriate box and the bibliographies
marked accordingly. Two copies of each post-2008 keepsake are being retained at the end of the series, and eventually recorded,
possibly in an addendum or new bibliography. (10/12 las)

The following applies to "General Keepsakes and Publications" and "Joint Meeting Keepsakes". A maximum of two examples were
saved of each item found in the archive (exception: in one or two cases there were more than two variants – in such cases
one of each variant was saved). They were arranged chronologically, and marked in photocopies of the two bibliographies that
have been compiled for the periods 1928-1978 and 1978-2008. A few items were not captured by the compilers of the bibliographies
– these have been entered by hand at the appropriate place. It would be desirable for the Club to acquire and add missing
keepsakes, especially for the earlier years. If this happens, they should be filed in the appropriate box and the bibliographies
marked accordingly. Two copies of each post-2008 keepsake are being retained at the end of the series, and eventually recorded,
possibly in an addendum or new bibliography. (10/12 las)

Boxes 1-6

Oversize Joint Meeting Keepsake

Physical Description:
6.0 boxes

Zamorano Club Library

Physical Description:
6.0 boxes

Archivist's Note

These boxes contain (a) items with Zamorano Club Library bookplates – apparently left over from the 1999 sale, and (b) miscellaneous
items found with them that bear some relation to the Club, but have no bookplate. Progressives of Bookbinding has its own
box.

A list of books in the library of the Zamorano Club, Los Angeles, California.March 15, 1937

Preferred Citation note

Typescript. 13 copies.

oversize-box 5

"Mrs. Irving Way's guest book"1905

Biographical/Historical note

Salesman's dummy of Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.
Part of a man's life. 1905.

oversize-box 5, oversize-box 5

W. Irving Way Manuscripts

Immediate Source of Acquisition note

donated by W. Clary

oversize-box 5, oversize-box 5

Wagner, Henry Raup

Scope and Contents note

folder of miscellaneous material

oversize-box 5

Whitman, Walt.
Song of the redwood-tree. For the friends of Silverado Squatters, Bohemian Grove: MCMLIV.

Biographical/Historical note

Inscribed at end: To the Zamorano Club from the Silverado Squatters per Carl I. Wheat. 8/8/54.

oversize-box 5, oversize-box 5

Zamorano Club

Scope and Contents note

folder of miscellaneous photostats, clippings

oversize-box 6

Chinese oracle bone

Biographical/Historical note

"Oracle bones were used in the Shang Dynasty in China to practice of a form of divination, fortune-telling, known as pyro-osteomancy.
Pyro-osteomancy is when seers tell the future based on the cracks in an animal bone or turtle shell either in their natural
state or after having been burned. The cracks were then used to determine the future. The earliest pyro-osteomancy in China
included the bones of sheep, deer, cattle, and pigs, in addition to turtle plastrons (shells). Pyro-osteomancy is known from
prehistoric east and northeast Asia, and from North American and Eurasian ethnographic reports.

Of most interest to historians are the etchings discovered on the surface of Shang dynasty oracle bones, which have been identified
as precursors to Chinese characters. Oracle bones of the Shang dynasty were ox scapulae and plastrons only, and they had characters
and holes drilled into them. Shang dynasty seers may have incised the characters to "fix the future," such that by drilling
holes and making marks before firing, the bone would crack in the "right" places."

From: Flad, Rowan K. (2008). Divination and power: A multiregional view of the development of oracle bone divination in Early
China.
Current Anthropology 49(3): 403-437.

oversize-box 6

Engraving. Portrait of William Strahan, after Reynolds.1792

oversize-box 6

Etchings of California missions by Henry Chapman Ford

Scope and Contents note

3 etchings

oversize-box 6

Leaf from
Memorials to the Throne, Sung Dynasty, 13thc.

Scope and Contents note

Example of Chinese printing.

oversize-box 6

Fake Elizabethan document

Biographical/Historical note

signed L. Powell and W. Ritchie

oversize-box 6

First leaf of Kelmscott Chaucer

Biographical/Historical note

"Presented by William Morris to George M. Millard, and later presented to the Zamorano Club by Mrs. George M. Millard."

oversize-box 6

Kelmscott leaf

Biographical/Historical note

Bookplate: Gift of Fitch Haskell, October 1958.

oversize-box 6

Photograph of London printer George W. Jones, with cover letter.

Progressives of bookbinding. Chicago: R.R. Donnelly & Sons Co.

Biographical/Historical note

Prepared for Mr. John Treanor. Examples of stages of bookbinding in a box.

Hoja Volante

Scope and Contents note

A set of the club newsletter, Hoja Volante, is kept with the archive. Two copies of each issue are added as they appear.

Addendum

Frisket sheets

Biographical/Historical note

Two vellum sheets once used as friskets for printing in black and red. Each originally formed a bifolium (now badly cropped)
from a manuscript of the Decretals of Gregory IX (with gloss) written in Bologna, ca. 1300.1 The MS. has initials and rubrication
in red.

A printer has used these as sheets as friskets for a liturgical book printed in octavo in two colors, cutting windows where
red ink was intended to print through. The sheets are heavily caked with red ink around the windows, showing the general layout
of the pages, though the text is illegible. The printed book has 34-35 lines per page plus headlines and direction lines,
20 lines = ca. 69 mm. The tallest window is four lines high in places, but more probably intended for three-line initials.
Text width is ca. 70.2 cm.

After their use in the printing shop the sheets were further cut down and evidently used as padding in bookbindings.